Author Archives: Lisa

10.7 Lion how to disable the Resume “Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps”

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Lisa

I’m currently deploying Lion, one feature I really want to turn off for a number of reasons is the Resume functionality also known as: System Preferences -> General -> Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps checkbox. The one that … Continue reading →

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Using Custom Triggers with the Casper Suite

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Lisa

Until recently I had been quiet happy strolling along with the built in triggers – login, startup, logout etc.. I was using these in combination with smart groups for package deployment or determining which computers needed to run a script. … Continue reading →

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Petting the Orange Fox

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Lisa

It’s that time of year.. where I need to refresh and create new SOEs. One thing I’ve decided I want better this year is the firefox user experience. I’m tired of windows popping up making sure the users know their … Continue reading →

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1 iPad many users.. how do I support this….

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Lisa

A few things happened recently.. I was asked to prepare a number of iPads that would be shared amongst a number of users, so that each user would have a clean iPad, the so called cleaning needed to be quick … Continue reading →

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CS5 and Network Homes

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Lisa

A while ago I mentioned that I would write up what I did to make CS5 play nice with network homes. Well kind of nice.. some of the apps just aren’t meant to be used with network homes. First of … Continue reading →

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Flat batteries… Lost date and time

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Lisa

Back in the day there used to be an onboard battery which maintained the date and time of the system. These days it has been replaced with a capacitor.. If you also did first year Introduction to Electrical Engineering then … Continue reading →

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MCX, Managed Client, Cache redirection, disabling iTunes sharing, radio streams, standardising the desktop picture

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Lisa

I really like MCX aka managed preferences, there are settings in the environment that need to be standardised for all users, and MCX allows me to make those settings centrally at a computer wide level. Using WorkGroup Manager I ususally … Continue reading →

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Disabling CS5 updates

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Lisa

So we’ve gone to a lot of effort to get CS5 working, for standard users. There are few users who have admin rights to their laptops, I get worried about updates to major applications like Adobe as sometimes things change … Continue reading →

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CS5

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Lisa

CS5 Master Collection has taken a chunk of my time lately. AAMEE and I didn’t get along very well.. so here are the steps I took to get a working package together. This is to create the full master collection. … Continue reading →

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